"--empress sanaki." zelgius' tone is distant, as is his gaze, but even so, he bows towards the younger one, takes to one knee as manners dictate regardless of his recovering wound. much has happened since the last time the apostle and the general had met, and as circumstances dictate, for all his crimes, he expects punishment. "---i await your sentence." [ one ask for sanaki this time around! ]
“Oh, stand up, you idiot.”
Sanaki had had something of a very long month. It was something of a tide for her - good news coming in and bad news overtaking it moments later. All the good news she got seemed to turn into bad or at least complicated moments later. She shuddered at the very idea of what would happen to Begnion’s internal politics if they ever found out that Micaiah was her older sister, for a start.
So much for a pleasant family reunion. The child smoothed her robes out and glanced at the man who had, admittedly, made her life perhaps more difficult than would be appreciated.
“If I wanted you dead or imprisoned, trust me, you wouldn’t have made it through Sienne’s front gates.” She said calmly. She could feel Sigrun’s glare and it wasn’t even resting on her - never mind Tanith’s.
Tanith wasn’t even in the room. How on earth was the woman still disapproving when she wasn’t here? Clearly, some kind of deep magic that she had yet to learn. It was almost enough to make Sanaki reconsider her choice, but she was committed to it at this point.
“If you want your punishment, here it is - your resignation is not accepted for the time being. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, General Zelgius, but while Crimea and Daein have actually come through the last year stronger than they were when they started, Begnion is on the verge of complete collapse. Killing over two thirds of the ruling class tends to do that to a country.”
Even if they deserved it. She thought to herself. Her actual plan for dealing with all of them had been spread out over a few years of very careful and deliberate assassinations as she grew older, particularly after she learned how effective Bastian’s favorite agent was.
Although this whole affair had also likely saved her several million gold. That man was expensive.
“It’s not as if anyone who could testify to your crimes is still active, alive, or wouldn’t shut up if I told them to.” She said, voice somewhat snippy. “And right now I need someone capable of carrying a very big sword and with the ability to command a large group of men also carrying very big swords to make sure nobody gets any bright ideas in the current political climate.”
Sigrun coughed, pointedly, and Sanaki tilted her head in acknowledgement. “...it’ll have to be a new very big sword. Ike gave Alondite to that swordwoman friend of his and she hasn’t given it back yet. We’re...still trying to figure out where she’s gone, actually.”
